Sprayer.



A. R. PRITGHARD.

SPRAYER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.16, 1911.

1,1 16,733. Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

4% LZ W THE NORRIS PETERS CO. PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. D. C

, UNITED STATES PATENT oFFioE.

ALBERT R. PRITCHARD, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO REED MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW YORIL'A C RPORAIION OF NEW YORK.

SPRAYER.

Application filed March 16, 1911. Serial No. 614,947.

To all whom it may concern:

a simple, durable and inexpensive device of the kind in question, particularly as relates to the construction of the tubes by which the "liquid is conveyed to the air-blasts.

To this end the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described, as it is defined in the succeeding claim.

In the accompanying drawings:Figure 1 is a front end-elevation of a sprayer embodying the present invention; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, on the line 22 in Fig. 1, of the forward extremity of the sprayer.

The invention is illustrated as embodied in a hand sprayer of any ordinary or suitable general form. This sprayer may comprise the usual air-pump, of which only the forward extremity of the cylinder. 3 is shown in the drawings. The forward end of the pump-cylinder is closed by aconical sheet-metal member 4, which is provided with two blast Openings 5, as shown' in Fig. 1, the arrangement producing two divergent air-blasts. Beneath the air-pump is suspended the usual liquid-receptacle 6, of which the forward end is closed by a screwcap 4.

The present invention resides particularly in the two tubes 8 by which liquid is conveyed from the liquid receptacle to theairblast openings 5. These two tubes pass through the screw-cap 7 from the interior ofthe receptacle, and their upper ends terminate adjacent the blast-openings, as shown Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV. .10, 19 14.

in Fig. 1. The tubes are supported in upright position by the conical mouth 9 of the sprayer, as they pass through this mouth and are soldered thereto. tions of the tubes project forsome distance The upper por- 1 above the lower wall of the part 9, and in order to'support these portions of the tubes they are connected by a sheet-metal web 10.

As shown in Fig. 2, this web'isfintegral with the tubes 8, the latter being formedby rolling over the lateral margins of the same piece of sheet-metal of which the web is formed, and soldering the edges. The lower portions of the tubes are formed by downward continuations of 1 the; sheet-nietal, rolled into tube form and soldered-along their edges. This construction of the tubes integral with the web 10 is simple, inexsfl pensive and strong, and the web supports the tubes rigidly in proper relation to the blast openings, andprevents them from be ing bent out of position when accidentally struck.

I claim I A sprayer having, in combination with a liquid receptacle and an air-pump with a conical sheet-metal mouth and with two metal member comprising two tubes, formed by rolllng over the sheet-metal, and a web widely-separated divergent air-blast orifices located within the mouth; an integral sheet connecting the upperends of the tubes, said upper ends projecting upwardly to points adjacent the air-blast orifices and said web extending downwardly to, but terminating at, the conical mouth, while the tubes extend through said mouth and downwardly into the liquid-receptacle.

ALBERT R. PRITCHARD.

Witnesses:

C. S. DAvIs, L. THoN;

Qopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

